dispel

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English dispelen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dispellere (“to disperse; to dispel”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: di‧spel
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• IPA^(key): [dɪˈspɛɫ]

Verb

dispel (third-person singular simple present dispels, present participle dispelling, simple past and past participle dispelled)

1. (transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
2. (transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
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     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

Usage notes

• Common nouns collocating with "dispel": cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions, objections.

Translations

to drive away by scattering

• Armenian: ցրել (hy) (cʻrel)
• Asturian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: разве́йваць (razvjéjvacʹ), рассе́йваць (rassjéjvacʹ)
• Bulgarian: разсейвам (bg) (razsejvam), разпръсквам (bg) (razprǎskvam)
• Catalan: dissipar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打消 (zh) (dǎxiāo) (doubts), 驅散／驱散 (zh) (qūsàn), 驱散 (zh) (qūsàn)

• Czech: rozptýlit
• Danish: henvejre
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: verjagen (nl), verdrijven (nl)
• Estonian: purustama
• Finnish: hälventää, haihduttaa, häivyttää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: chasser (fr), dissiper (fr)
• German: zerstreuen (de)
• Hebrew: הֵפִיג (hefíg), פִּזֵּר (he) (pizér)
• Khmer: លុបបំបាត់ជំនឿ (lup bɑmbat cumnɨə)
• Maori: whakamahea, tokotoko
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: dissipar, dispersar
• Polish: rozwiewać
• Portuguese: dissipar (pt), dispersar (pt)
• Romanian: spulbera (ro)
• Russian: разве́ивать (ru) impf (razvéivatʹ), разве́ять (ru) pf (razvéjatʹ), рассе́ивать (ru) impf (rasséivatʹ), рассе́ять (ru) pf (rasséjatʹ), разгоня́ть (ru) impf (razgonjátʹ), разогна́ть (ru) pf (razognátʹ)
• Spanish: disipar (es)
• Ukrainian: розві́ювати (rozvíjuvaty), розсі́ювати (rozsíjuvaty)

to remove fears etc.

• Maori: whakamahea
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Noun

dispel (plural dispels)

1. An act or instance of dispelling.
   • 2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life

     “My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.

Related terms

• dispulsion

Anagrams

• Spidle, diples, disple, lisped, pleids, spiled